Test 15 · ★ · Playing fair and cheating in games

mate cheated and won, gonna cheat back

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: cheat, win, cheat back

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 200 «Playing fair and cheating in games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheated	nsubj
2	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 won	cc
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cheated	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cheat	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 cheat	dep
7	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cheated	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 cheat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	cheat	past	mate	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	win	past	mate not said here	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cheat back	infinitive	mate not said here	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cheat more than him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheat	cheat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Cheat	obj
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	imperative	you not said here	more					vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Source

Option 2

Quit and break the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 break	cc
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Quit	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	infinitive	you not said here	the game					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Patient

Option 3

Tell him he's stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stupid	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stupid	cop
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present	he					stupid property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say it's not fair and play fair yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fair	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fair	advmod
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 play	cc
7	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 play	xcomp
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	it		fair property	tree rules
3	play	infinitive	you not said here	yourself	fair property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme

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